The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether , and gave good reasons for disusing it . I allude to these facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has always been the ...
... Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether , and gave good reasons for disusing it . I allude to these facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has always been the ...
Page 84
... Quakers , no unnatural crimes . The tone of the Records rises with the dignity of the event . These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within . The old town clerks did not spell very correctly , but they contrive to make ...
... Quakers , no unnatural crimes . The tone of the Records rises with the dignity of the event . These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within . The old town clerks did not spell very correctly , but they contrive to make ...
Page 107
... Quakers got the story . In their plain meeting - houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation got entrance . They were rich : they owned , for debt or by inheritance , island property ; they were religious , tender - hearted men and ...
... Quakers got the story . In their plain meeting - houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation got entrance . They were rich : they owned , for debt or by inheritance , island property ; they were religious , tender - hearted men and ...
Page 108
... Quakers . John Woolman of New Jersey , whilst yet an apprentice , was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro , for his master . He gave his testimony against the traffic , in Maryland and Virginia . Thomas ...
... Quakers . John Woolman of New Jersey , whilst yet an apprentice , was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro , for his master . He gave his testimony against the traffic , in Maryland and Virginia . Thomas ...
Page 111
... Quakers , Moravians , and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries , follow- ing in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies , had been moved to come and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation , in a future world , of the ...
... Quakers , Moravians , and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries , follow- ing in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies , had been moved to come and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation , in a future world , of the ...
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